2025 Fringe Awards
Dunedin Fringe 2025 Award winners
Thank you so much to all our generous Award sponsors who made the below Awards possible, and HUGE congratulations to all our Fringe 2025 Award nominees and winners:
The Visual Art Award (sponsored by AJ & Adrian Woodhouse):
WINNER: Art at Heart: Kids Exhibition
The Em-paw-rium
BRinG bAcK ThE STaR FOunTAIn
Spectacle presents: CLOSE
The Dance / Physical Theatre Award (sponsored by Dr Jane Malthus):
WINNER: Only Bones - Daniel Nodder
Babyface
BOTTOM SURGERY
Manage Your Expectations
Motion Sickness
The Comedy Award (sponsored by Inch Bar):
WINNER: Just Eat The Damn Sausage
Ah, Jaysus!
BOTTOM SURGERY
Delightfool
ROADKILL: The Uber-Cool Musical
The Music Award (sponsored by Famously Fit Sports Nutrition):
WINNER: SPACE HOLE
An Iliad
For My Family, And Yours
Macbeth: The Barden Party
ROADKILL: The Uber-Cool Musical
The Theatre Award (sponsored by WOW! Productions):
WINNER: Babyface
An Iliad
Delightfool
No No No
The Tiny Show
Best Poster Award (sponsored by Better Creative):
WINNER: Ah, Jaysus!
GlowJam
BOTTOM SURGERY
A Hot Girl and Her Suzuki Swift
Science Magic: Messy Mayhem
Just Eat The Damn Sausage
Eli Matthewson: Heaven’s Devil
Delightfool
All Good If Not
ASMR HOUR
Outstanding Performance / Performer Award (sponsored by Penny Gwynne):
WINNER: Daniel Nodder (Only Bones)
Nick Tipa: Babyface
George Fenn: Sexy Golf Boy
Tomasin Fisher-Johnson: The Tiny Show
Tom Knowles: ROADKILL: The Uber-Cool Musical
Max Beal: An Iliad
Favourite Comedian Award (sponsored by Dunedin Comedy):
WINNER: Alan McElroy (Ah, Jaysus!)
Harriet Moir (Just Eat the Damn Sausage)
James Mustapic (All Good If Not)
Eli Matthewson (Heaven’s Devil)
Outstanding Emerging Talent Award (sponsored by Anderson Lloyd):
WINNER: Tom Knowles (ROADKILL: The Uber-Cool Musical)
Most Accessible Event (sponsored by That Blind Woman: Julie Woods):
WINNER: ASMR HOUR and The Tiny Show (joint winners)
Outstanding Design Award (sponsored by Southern Lights & Services):
WINNER: The Tiny Show
Babyface
Delightfool
ROADKILL: The Uber-Cool Musical
SoliloQueens (+ Kings): Act 2
Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (sponsored by Strawberry Sound):
WINNER: SoliloQueens (+ Kings): Act 2
Babyface
BRinG bAcK ThE STaR FOunTAIn
Manage Your Expectations
ROADKILL: The Uber-Cool Musical
UNESCO City of Literature ‘Beyond Words’ Award (sponsored by Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature Office):
WINNER: Babyface
A Year and A Day
I Was a Teenage Racist
Rare Public Appearance of Miss Georgette Heyer
No No No
Most Promising Pacific Artist Award (sponsored by the Creative NZ Pacific Team):
WINNER: Ravi the Poet (For My Family, And Yours)
Most Promising Māori Artist Award (sponsored by InterACT):
WINNER: Nick Tipa (Babyface)
Phil Davison Special Contribution to Festival Life (sponsored by #getinōtepoti podcast):
WINNER: Liz McCarthy & Vanessa Adey (joint winners)
Eli Joseph
Tristan Miller
Harriet Moir
Blake Armstrong
Warwick Broadhead Memorial Award (sponsored by Woof! Bar):
WINNER: BRinG bAcK ThE STaR FOunTAIn (Ellie Swann)
NZ Fringe Touring Award (sponsored by Dunedin Arts Festival & Dunedin Fringe):
WINNER: Just Eat the Damn Sausage
Babyface
Donna Brookbanks in Green Fingered
ROADKILL: The Uber-Cool Musical
William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Runner up Best in Fringe (sponsored by Outstanding Performance):
WINNER: Only Bones - Daniel Nodder
Babyface
ROADKILL: The Uber-Cool Musical
Just Eat the Damn Sausage
The Tiny Show
Best in Fringe (sponsored by Deloitte):
WINNER: ROADKILL: The Uber-Cool Musical
Babyface
Only Bones - Daniel Nodder
Just Eat the Damn Sausage
The Tiny Show
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Dunedin Fringe envisions a city ignited by creativity, where all people embrace art, culture and creativity into their daily lives.
We have a mission to provide platforms for creative expression that help nurture communities. We have a special focus on supporting emerging artists, and the development of new and experimental work.
We produce the Dunedin Fringe Festival, Amped Music Project and New Zealand Young Writers Festival annually, curate the White Box Gallery, and manage the performing arts venue Te Whare o Rukutia.
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19 George Street,
Dunedin 9016,
Aotearoa New Zealand
03 477 3350